Exercise 2 ( ). Fill the gaps with one of the words below.

to cure, robots, environmentally-friendly, enthusiasm, ready-made, foresee, Mars, exploration

Future life

According to the recent survey, people expect that home life will be better. Most people believe that by 2050 (1) will be doing the housework and we will be eating (2) food. A lot of people think that we might only cook for fun in the future.

Space (3) will become increasingly popular. Fifty per cent of the people we talked to believe that man will regularly visit (4) . They also believe that travel on our own planet will probably change. Almost everyone thinks that there will be no cars in the city centers. Some even think that (5) electric or solar-powered cars will have replaced the cars we use nowadays. Pollution is something that seems to worry many people. Some fear that it will continue to get worse, and that our planet will become impossible to live on. Others even (6) that one day we'll have to pay for clean air just like we do now for clean water.

On the other hand, people seem to be quite optimistic about the benefits of genetic engineering, as they think scientists will use it (7) diseases like cancer and AIDS. If scientists manage to find a cure for these, we'll have a much healthier society. Some people worry about the future, while others are full of hope and (8) . No matter how dark or bright it may seem, it is up to us to look after our planet and try to make it a better place to live.​

Joshua Reynolds
Джошуа Рейнольдс

J.R.was a great English painter.He was
born in Devonshire in the south of England in 1723.His father
was a school teacher.Joshua learned to paint in London and in Italy.People
liked the portraits which Reynolds painted.He worked much in Italy and
visited many cities where he painted.
He became famous portrait painter.
In 1768 Reynolds became the first
president of the Royal Academy of Arts.He made a whole gallery of portraits of the most famous people.
In 1792 the great English painter died.

The history of the Eiffel tower in Paris is. In the late nineteenth century in France was about to celebrate a hundred years of the revolution of 1789. It was decided to organize the world exhibition and its opening to come up with some unique, extraordinary "something" than you can shake the world. And stopped at daring for those times the project of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel. After two years on the left Bank of the Seine rose, skyward, openwork arrow of the tower. The height of the Eiffel tower was reached in 300 metres, while the weight of the tower was 10,000 tons. In continuation of the history of the Eiffel tower in Paris, I note that as is often the case with unusual grandiose projects, at birth metal collosa there a lot of difficulties not only of the technical plan. Influential and respected persons of the French capital openly opposed the implementation of the project of the new construction. Even outstanding masters of culture have not attracted the Eiffel tower. Alexandre Dumas, Charles Gounod, Leconte de Lisle, guy de Maupassant, Sully Prudhomme signed "boiling noble indignation" protest against "useless and monstrous buildings" in the heart of Paris. If you are interested in more detailed history of the Eiffel tower, on the pages of the Internet you can find everything your heart desires. As guy de Maupassant, the master of French literature and a fierce opponent of the Eiffel tower came up with a novel way to see "the ugly skeleton": he simply had dinner in the restaurant of the tower itself! "This is the only place in Paris where I cannot see it". These are the words of the writer. But the story of the Eiffel tower does not end there. The years have passed. And now the Eiffel tower is no longer the object of irritation and an object of admiration. Or slightly less famous than the Palace of Versailles. It began to compose songs and to put her poems. She became a favorite model for artists and photographers. Not only in Europe and America praise famous beauty. In Vietnam, for example, even created a small copy of the Eiffel tower. Today the Eiffel tower is perhaps the most striking symbol of all France, not just Paris. Especially popular Eiffel tower is the representatives of world tourism. Reviews full of enthusiasm. And this is natural. Who wouldn't enjoy the view of the French capital from the height of bird flight. The view from the Eiffel tower is amazing in its splendor. But for this pleasure you have to wait in a decent place. The Creator of the Eiffel tower Gustave Eiffel often with humor responded about their child with these words: "I should feel a sense of jealousy to the tower. Because it is much more famous than me." The Northern "leg" of the tower now there is a gilded bust of the founder of the great creation. "Eiffel: 1832 — 1923". Such is the simple inscription on the bust of the